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Write a response to each study question listed in this course outline. Develop one page utilizing named anchors to navigate between weeks. Provide the question and the response to each question. Reponses should come mainly from the textbook, be sure to include page citations. These must be posted by Sunday night at midnight.

Marking Criteria / 100
Quality of information in answers (60 pts)
Use of valid markup (30 pts)
Grammar / Spelling (10 pts)

Week 1 Study Questions

  1. What is a browser? Can you view a website without a browser? List three popular browsers.
  2. Draw a concept map showing the relationship between the Internet, a server, the local computer (client), the browser and the html file. Identify the hardware and software components of this diagram.
  3. What is CSS?
  4. What is the difference between HTML and XHTML?
  5. What are the possible main functions of a Web site?
  6. What tangible benefits can a Web site provide to visitors?
  7. Why are employers looking for employees who can hand-code Web pages by using an HTML editor?
  8. What are the basic components of an HTML page?
  9. What’s the Web-safe palette and when should you use it?
  10. How do you decide what information to display on a Web site?
  11. How can you determine whether a Web site needs to use a database?
  12. To improve site traffic, what kinds of additional content can you add to a Web site?
  13. What's the proper order in the markup for the page title, Meta data, and DOCTYPE?
  14. Why include Meta tags in the markup?
  15. How can you use HTML to mark up content semantically?
  16. How can you use HTML to improve page accessibility?

Week 2 Study Questions

  1. What kinds of Web organizations exist to help create Web standards?
  2. Why do standards for creating Web pages exist?
  3. What are DTDs, and why should designers use them in HTML markup?
  4. What are the benefits of using CSS to style Web pages?
  5. What are accessibility standards, and how can you use them to improve a Web site?
  6. Where in the markup can you place CSS?
  7. How many CSS files can you associate with a single document or Web site?
  8. How might you use CSS and media types to format content for different devices used to view or interpret a Web page?
  9. What kinds of style attributes can you apply to a CSS style?
  10. What types of objects on a page can you style with CSS?

Week 3 Study Questions

  1. Why would you want to choose different settings for a Web graphic than for a print graphic?
  2. What are the benefits of using a Web image optimization program?
  3. What type of image would you save in GIF format? What type of image is better optimized as a JPEG?
  4. What do you need to consider when optimizing several graphics for a single Web page?
  5. Why would you want to slice an image during the optimization process?
  6. What does FTP mean?
  7. Which FTP programs are the best and least expensive to use?
  8. What’s the difference between an FTP program and an FTP host console?
  9. How can you set up a secret directory on a host server for testing?
  10. What does publishing a site entail?
  11. How do you let the world know the site is online?

Week 4 Study Question

  1. What are the reasons for creating a layout without tables?

Week 6 Study Questions

  1. What fun interactive things can you do to a Web page with JavaScript?
  2. What’s the trick to inserting media, such as Flash movies, into a Web page?
  3. What are three different ways to get site visitors involved with the content of your pages?
  4. What’s the best way to clean up imperfect code?
  5. Why should you test your pages on Mac and PC?
  6. What other platforms or devices on which you should test Web pages?
  7. What are the most common types of markup errors and how can you quickly repair them?
  8. What kinds of tools can automate or partially automate site testing?
  9. Which different browsers and browser versions should you test pages on prior to publishing?
  10. What is usability testing? How does it differ from quality assurance? How would you conduct a usability test?

Week 7 Study Questions

  1. How difficult is it to convert HTML to XHTML and vice versa?
  2. What are online markup validators and how do you use them?
  3. When pages fail validation testing, what kinds of markup issues typically need to be addressed?
  4. Why is ethics an important consideration when optimizing a site's visibility to search tools?
  5. What elements in a site, both on the page and in the HTML markup, need to be a part of an SEO strategy?
  6. Why would a site owner want to resubmit a site to a search engine?
  7. How does an HTML site map differ from a visual site map?
  8. How might an HTML site map help with search engine optimization?
  9. How does an HTML site map make a site more accessible to visitors?



Week 8 Study Questions (Extra Credit plus 2%)

  1. What is accessibility?
  2. Why consider accessibility?
  3. What does ADA stand for?
  4. What is section 508?
  5. What are the things you consider when making accessible Web Design? Describe each.
  6. What are two accessibility issues you must consider when dealing with color?